Late last week, I "attended" my first online conference, Alt For Everyone. The event was put on by the amazing people behind the most well-known business conference for bloggers, Alt Summit; If you're a blogger and you haven't looked into Alt or don't read their blog, I highly recommend it. Life-changing.
Anyhoopers, I spent last Thursday and Friday holed up in my apartment, yellow legal pad in my lap, taking classes via live video presentations on my laptop, and I loved every minute of it. In my breaks between classes I would emerge out into the sunlight, like a little blogging mole, and try to clear my head in the fresh air before jumping right back in for the next session. During this process, I learned SO much. Too much for my newbie bloggie mind to absorb. In fact, I'm slightly overloaded/overwhelmed by all that I took in, but in the best of ways that makes you want to either curl up in a ball and quit, or hit the ground running (so start running I will!). After using the weekend to synthesize my notes and organize them into one coherent to-do list (would you expect anything else?), I'm itching to get started on all of my new projects, revamps, and ideas. But, in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the things that I learned that apply to everyone, not just bloggers, and some of the fun things that will be coming to Starr Struck soon... Basic points from the Alt Keynote Address, "The Art of Being a Goal Getter," by Joy Cho of Oh Joy!
As you can tell, I found Joy's talk to be extremely powerful because she is living the dream, and has created an empire out of her hard work and her ability to achieve her goals. She told a story to back-up each of these points, which really hit home for me. She went out and got what she wanted, despite failure, being told no, and coming up against obstacles. She is one. Inspiring. Lady. Check her out! Super fab creative resources for bloggers, creatives, and beyond:
Things to get excited about--coming soon to Starr Struck:
I hope you're looking forward to these changes as much as I am! I cannot wait until I have more space in my schedule next month. Have I said that yet? #soexcited.
Mary Catherine
5/21/2013 01:28:13 am
Thanks, Andrea! I'm ready to get started :) Glad to hear that you enjoy Lynda, too! xo Comments are closed.
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HELLO!I'm Mary Catherine, a Cape Cod-based yoga teacher, painter, designer, writer, mom, and list-maker extraordinaire. My goal is to inspire you to start living a more creative, simple, joyful, + purposeful life.
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